thanks guys! That really helped in some things in there. I'm not a real expert in Thingfish, so I only have a slight idea how it fits the whole thing.- Who is Brown Moses?- Who is he talking to? The "daddy" and "mama" should be Harry and Rhonda, I guess, leaving (?) Harry-as-a-Boy... alone, somewhere?...- "paper" in "her shoe"?...- this weed-thing?...- finally: what is "pompadour" here?

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thanks! (Beautiful tune, by the way...)

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5.River Weeds = perhaps derived from the Bible story of infant Moses being found near river reeds.

6.ignint Bible deeds = ignorant Bible deeds

7.boys refuse to loin = boys refuse to learn

8.Somethin' borry: Somethin' blue! = something borrowed! Something blue! Many brides to be choose to wear something borrowed and something blue on their wedding day. The borrowed item signifies the transfer of happiness and the blue symbolizes fidelity and purity. In the context of the song however, it may only serve as something to rhyme.

9.Best keeps a lIn yo shoe! (why?...)il' paper = Another one up for debate. People who couldn't afford to buy new shoes when the old ones wore out and got a hole in the sole sometimes would fill the hole with newspaper or cardboard. You can also put newspaper in your shoes to help keep your feet warmer in cold conditions.

10.crabgrass = An invasive type of grass seen as a nuisance upon otherwise nice looking residential front lawns. In this context, I think Brown Moses has gone from tall river reeds to tall crabgrass when he was moved to the suburbs. Maybe he saw his first pink flamingos on this same lawn. Just a theory.

11. I'll gives ya HIM! = The infant Brown Moses is being traded by some alcoholic for a bottle wine or gin.

12. POMPADOUR = one of those goofy 50s style hairdos men used to wear. Maybe used here just for the sound of the word itself.

9.Best keeps a lIn yo shoe! (why?...)il' paper = Another one up for debate. People who couldn't afford to buy new shoes when the old ones wore out and got a hole in the sole sometimes would fill the hole with newspaper or cardboard. You can also put newspaper in your shoes to help keep your feet warmer in cold conditions.

I think that refers to hiding money in your shoe, as in the blues song "Deep Elem" ("If you go down to Deep Elem, keep your money in your shoes/Women in Deep Elem got them Deep Elem blues").

„de Italian dat be ownin' yo' nativity bungalow been wondrin' 'bouts de hanky AN' de panky 'tween you 'n dem two concrete flamingos ovuh by de steps! You been messin' wit de State Bird o' New Jersey, muthafucker!Leave de ugly baby in de crab-grass, snatch up yo' wretched excuse fo a woman, 'n climb on up de heap! Get yo'seff a job drivin' a truck fulla string-beans to Utah! Make sumfin' out y'seff, so's y'can afode a ticket to de MAMMY NUN SHOW! Den we can piss all ovuh de adulterated wimp you gwine become, an' get de shit rollin' agin'!”„Harry: Those are the Warner Brothers files, aren't they dear? Don't you think there'll be some questions about the condition of the blue paper? „

one more question:"Because of where yo' petuh goes" - isn't it 'peter' (instead of 'potato') like in In France:

Urging to be exitingBecause the fla-min-i-go's - so he's (who?..) exited by the flamingos?

Its not exciting... its exit-ing...leaving. He wants to leave because of the flamingos on the lawn, maybe beacuse of where they want to put their 'peter' (Lets face it who would want to be fucked by a flamingo?)

balint wrote:

If only you been considerateAbout this little illiterateI wouldn't have been trudging across the sand -so is there a reason he came here?...From way down yonder in Egypt Land (Egypt? why?)

Yes there is a reason! Brown Moses came trudging across the sand (as oppose to the tundra!) to rescue the baby who had been dumped on the lawn by his inconsiderate parents. Well he trudged from Eygpt because thats where Moses came from, I suppose.

What wickedness is this?The way you're behaving!This baby I'm holding in my armshas been left out on the lawn!

The father [Harry] has been negligent,the mother [Artificial Rhonda] was a plastic inflatable doll;the trauma to the babycan mostly not be undone.

Your desire to leavebecause of those [lawn] flamingosis thoroughly puzzling himbecause of what you do sexually.

If only you had been more carefulwith this little baby,I wouldn't have been "trudging across the sandfrom way down yonder in Egypt Land" [to return your baby to you].

They call me Brown Moses,for that is surely who I am,ancient and religious,solemn and prestigious

The knowledge I have,along with the fact that this baby is pissing on me,makes me think of those reeds by the river [where the abandoned baby Moses was found]and all those ignorant things people did in the Bible.

[Moses] grew up as the Pharaoh's adopted son,but eventually turned against the Pharaoh.Some people [like Harry] refuse to learn.Where there's smoke, there's fire."Something borrowed, something blue"You ought to keep a little spare cash in your shoe.Hear me when I say to you:Abandoning your baby was wrong to do!

It's a terrible thing that you did to him,leaving him lying in the crab-grass.Surely one day he'll grow upand get revenge on you.

Old Brown Moses has now spoken.Could you lend me some money? I have none.I love to drink wine and gin,so for a little booze money, I'll give you back your baby.

...Yes there is a reason! Brown Moses came trudging across the sand (as oppose to the tundra!) to rescue the baby who had been dumped on the lawn by his inconsiderate parents. Well he trudged from Egypt because that's where Moses came from, I suppose.

nice analysis james; the original crab grass baby, the flamingo is checkin out the deflatables, and the poodle is about to react

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Yes, "wit'" means "with." I don't know this album all that well but as I recall only Napoleon plays the Evil Prince. In this song Terry/Harry either becomes a Mammy Nun, or is pretending he is a Mammy Nun, or something.

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